Elizabeth Deegan makes it clear the Project Greenville events she started are a venue for something that already existed.“I feel like long before I was going into people’s businesses and asking them if they wanted to get into a free art show — which they still look at me like, ‘What?’ Long before I had any ideas, there was already a big sense of community here,” she says.The southern area of Jersey City generally referred to as “Greenville” includes the Bergen-Lafayette and “The Read more [...]

Survival Tips Have a game plan. Look at the special offers being listed and make a list of stores you want to hit . And don't miss the department stores—they don't always have specific sales listed online (Neiman Marcus Last Call and Barney's New York Outlet have still not listed any events) because, as an associate from Barney's revealed, they often don't know what the definitive discounts will be until the day before. (We were told to expect 30% and possibly 40% off the lowest ticketed Read more [...]

Cleveland County Events Nov. 24- ART FOR CHRISTMAS: 1-4 p.m., The Southern Arts Society at the old Southern Railway Station, 301 N. Piedmont Ave., Kings Mountain, more than 75 artists sell their fine arts and crafts.Nov. 25- CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING: 7 p.m.; Children and their families will gather at Mauney Memorial Library for Christmas activities and stories prior to the tree lighting and the arrival of Santa Claus in a fire truck. Sponsored by the City of Kings Mountain, Read more [...]

The recent letter to the Arizona Daily Sun from Linda McMichael titled “Picking up litter a good workout” was both witty and disquieting. Even though trash being aimlessly tossed into our community is not funny, it’s apparently of little concern to many. You might expect such childish behavior from a kid in diapers, but by adults?Really?Praise to Linda for being so troubled by this failure in judgment she gathered the litter along Pine Knoll Drive herself. Many others, however, prefer Read more [...]